'24 Hour Party People', which we saw recently and loved, is shot on digital video. The footage is at once a miracle and an annoyance. Anything shot indoors looks pretty good. Anything shot under pink disco lights looks amazing. And anything shot outside, with real light, looks like pixellated garbage. But there are a lot of advantages to digital video here. For starters, the camera really moves. You're always on the dance floor with Tony Wilson; you swirl around the druggy immersion of the Hacienda; the real archival stuff, like the Sex Pistols footage, blends right in. I gotta say, I'm all for movies being made on digital video and released in cinemas. Digital video movies are getting better and cheaper all the time. I see no reason why in five years I shouldn't have access to the gear to make movies just as bad as the ones George Lucas makes.
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